This CFP, almost identical to one sent earlier, is has been slightlyedited to make it more user-friendly for US scholars. The changes occur inthe final sentence under category 1 below and in the penultinmateparagraph overall.

CALL FOR PAPERS

*scrutiny2: issues in english studies in southern africa* wishes to invitepapers on the following topics for its forthcoming issues:

1. The end of theory?

The editors invite contributions which address the seeming exhaustion withsuccessive waves of theory that attempt to legitimate and strengthen thepractices of literary and cultural criticism. We are more than happy hereto consider contemporary contexts other than southern Africa, and casehistories in regions such as the US and elsewhere.

2. The semiotics of sports narratives

In the wake of the Hansie Cronje scandal, which seems to have affectedSouth Africans and cricket loyalists elsewhere with as much force as athousand novels, the editors invite reflections on the imaginativeinvestment in national sport. What charge is carried by the semioticenactment of heroic sporting endeavour under the sign of national colours?What does sport mean? Should cultural scholars take the aesthetics, andthe ethics, of sport more seriously?

3. Testimonies of institutional transition

Institutional contexts, particularly in southern Africa, are changing thevery nature of academic disciplines. Momentous changes are occurring atSouth African universities, involving a great deal of trauma, racialconflict, philosophical and pedagogical debate. Yet there is relativelylittle reflective writing on these dramas of transition. The editorsinvite 'raw' testimony as well as more 'academic' accounts of the storiesbehind the curriculum and promotional battles.

*scrutiny2*, a peer-reviewed journal with an occasional postcolonialslant, is indexed by the MLA, among others. Past contributors to thejournal include international scholars of note such as Dipesh Chakrabarty,Laura Chrisman, David Attwell, Peter Horn, Kole Omotoso, David Schalkwyk,Devi Sarenjeive, John Higgins and many others.

Write to the Editor, Leon de Kock, at dkockl_at_unisa.ac.za or to theCo-editor, Deirdre Byrne, at byrnedc_at_unisa.ac.za for more details.